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I never ever, could see myself getting this excited about one sparrow. I mean I have a whole flock of house sparrows. Its the first I've seen in this garden. I very nearly dropped camera, that would of cost, phew!
I will not sleep tonight wondering if he will return tomorrow!
Fingers crossed
John
For viewing or photography right place right time is everything. I'd rather be in the right place with poor kit than have the best kit and be in the wrong place.
You have me there MarJus, how do you sex them?
Lovely photos John. Three is a great number in just a week - more will follow, I am sure. On sexing, I don't know for certain but if it is the same criteria as for house sparrows the females will lack the chestnut crown - but don';t quote me on that.
The necessity of bird-watching is a really good reason for avoiding all forms of housework.
The dust will still be there tomorrow - the birds may not be!
Sorry! It's me John! I've just looked up the tree sparrow and learnt that they are identical! That explains why I have only pictures of males (so I thought!). I had assumed (it's so bad to assume...) that the female was different as is the case with the house sparrows!
"All weeds are flowers, once you get to know them" (Eeyore)
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I didn't mean to pull you, I hoped you maybe had a little gem of info to help me soz
No you didn't! At least I know now!! ;-) Looking at your photos, I can't see any differences at all! Maybe as you get more, we'll be able to see if there are any slight differences!
I made the same mistake as you MarJus as I only had the one pic. I should have twigged really that if there wasn't a second picture it was because there wasn't a difference. Doh! ☺
Hi all,
We have definitely got tree sparrows in our garden - I'm not going to even guess what sex it was suffice to say the himshee was accompanied by another flitting about and in our cottoneaster only this morning, others were sitting in the birch across the garden but I'm not sure how many.
Regards
Kerry
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Well, well, well, you learn something new every day, I thought a sparrow was a sparrow, I’m going to be glued to the window today to see which “flavor” we have. As ours nest in the eaves of the house I presume they will be house sparrows but you never know.
Lovely photos Highland McHale, they will make identification easy for me.
Build it and they will come.
It seems the word is out so much that today the house sparrow flock came to feeders first and later a small flock of Tree Sparrows came. no longer the odd one in a house sparrow flock! They are not quite so bold but I had five for sure in view at one time and photo wise I'm up to three, in one shot.
For those who don't know, the tape is to stop the crows/jackdaws from tipping the feeders out by grabbing from below and flying straight up.
I wonder just how many this flock has.
Fantastic photos John. Love them all. What a top photographer you are.
Squirrel